The City of Toulouse brings its technical services together
Taillandier Architectes Associés, working with ppa architectures, has won the architectural competition for Toulouse's future Techno-Centre. The facility will bring together six of the technical departments of the Ville Rose: Public Lighting, Technical Resources, Household Waste, the Pôle Territorial Est, the Parks and Green Spaces department, and the Sports and Leisure Centres department.
The Techno-Centre Atlanta Toulouse will stand beside the ring road, on a triangular plot along Avenue Atlanta, close to the Auchan shopping centre at Balma Gramont. Taillandier Architectes Associés and ppa architectures have used the office areas to create a landmark at the southern tip of the site, marking the entrance to the facility.
The architects began by establishing a regular grid in order to keep costs under control. This 1.35 m planning grid is expressed in a structural grid of 10.8 m by 10.8 m, sized to guide the layout of both the offices and the car parking.
The architects have also thought of the users, creating planted terraces set back from the activity of the avenue and shielded from traffic noise, which offer council staff places to relax and take a break. This part of the scheme houses the restaurant and a sports area, and also provides views for the workshop offices.
As for lighting, the technical building will be topped with sawtooth roofs to maximise natural light in the workshops. The roof will also carry photovoltaic panels.
The project totals 21,000 m² of floor area, plus 28,000 m² of external space, for a total cost of €45 million. Start-on-site and completion dates are still being studied.
- Architects: Taillandier Architectes Associés, ppa architectures
- Client: Ville de Toulouse
- Programming consultant: Vitam Ingénierie
- Multidisciplinary engineering consultant: Betem
- Infrastructure and external works engineer: Betem
- Quantity surveyor: Execo
- Acoustician: AF INFRA AB
- Environmental consultant: Inddigo
- Landscape architect: Baseland
- Visuals: L’Atelier des Chimères
- Competition date: January 2020
- Floor area: 21,000 m²
- Budget: €45,000,000 excl. VAT
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